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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. He interviewed for a faculty position at MIT and knew immediately it was where he wanted to work, he says. In the final year of his Ph.D.,

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Derq introduces first automated safety performance monitoring at TRB Annual Meeting 2023

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Derq’s safety performance metrics are based on real-time identification and granular classification of safety events and road user behaviors such as crashes, near-misses, violations, and pedestrian and cyclist compliance issues. Derq’s dashboard showing the new Automated Safety Performance Monitoring features on a local road network.

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Audi and MIT develop Road Frustration Index

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Driving in chaotic urban traffic can be as nearly as stressful as jumping out of an airplane, according to new findings from an Audi and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study. For Audi, the research helps validate how driver assistance and connectivity technologies can help ease the stress of daily driving.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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The new research effort, named CSRC Next, will focus on the challenges and opportunities of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies over the next decade. CSRC is working with the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Toyota Connected (TC). Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior.

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Video Friday: Pedipulate

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. NRL did some interesting stuff with Nexi robots from MIT and made their own videos. MIT CSAIL ] Large industrial asset operators increasingly use robotics to automate hazardous work at their facilities.

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Video Friday: Robot, Make me Coffee

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. It can also help you interact with other connected devices or take care of hassles. MIT ] Meet DJI’s first delivery drone—FlyCart 30.

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Video Friday: Swarm Control

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Kickstarter ] Researchers created a method for magnetically programming materials to make cubes that are very picky about who they connect with, enabling more scalable self-assembly.

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